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Otaku media is nothing if not equal opportunity. IdolM@ster isn't just going to be game/multi-media franchise about cute dancing girls that distracts popular manga artists. Veterans of the fictional all-male idol unit 961 Production (Shota Mitara...

No Squidding Around – Another 'Squid Girl' OVA On The Way Posted by Chris Beveridge February 24, 2014 at 10:31 PM With Crunchyroll having recently brought on the two OVAs for Squid Girl, it seems like it's a prime opportunity to announce that ther...

'Saint Seiya Omega' Anime Gets End Date Posted by Chris Beveridge February 24, 2014 at 09:25 PM Saint Seiya Omega The spring season looks to be taking down a lot of shows that have been running as we've already got the end of Toriko confirmed and ...

The Box Office Mojo website reports that Hayao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises opened in limited release this weekend in 21 theaters with an estimated US$306,000. Those box office receipts gave the film a per-screen average of US$14,571, the...

Namco Bandai Games began streaming four more character gameplay videos and the fourth commercial for its J-Stars Victory Vs. "team battle action" video game on Monday. The gameplay videos highlight the characters Gon Freecss from Hunter x Hunter, ...

Actress Tao Tsuchiya talked about playing Misao Makimachi in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin film sequels to the media and how she felt after getting the role. Tsuchiya already appeared in the Keishi Otomo directed historical TV drama series Ryoma...

ToQger & Gaim to have TV Crossover In a move, surely to go along with the debut date of Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider War feat. Super Sentai, Toei has decided to make the first ever complete team up of Ressha Sentai ToQger and Kamen Ri...

The PlayStation 4 sold 322,083 units in its opening weekend in Japan, Famitsu. com reports. The system has posted similar opening numbers to the Wii U, which opened at 308,570 copies in its first weekend.

Popular anime voice actress Kana Hanazawa celebrates her 25th birthday today on February 25. She was born in Tokyo on February 25, 1989. Since when she was in kindergarten, she had worked as a child actress in various Japanese TV dramas and variet...

Sheryl & Alto return to life for the sweet taste of Umaibō (plus Blu-rays and figures) Namco began streaming a promotional video on Monday for its crossover campaign between the Umaibō puffed corn snacks and Namco Bandai Games' "Macross Frontier t...

Bandai Namco Games in Japan have today released a new trailer for their upcoming and potentially last PlayStation 3 Idolm@ster game "The Idolm@ster: One For All" before they make the jump to the now current generation consoles.

After character designs were previewed earlier in the month, some voice actor names have now been matched to the facec on the April anime adaptation of Dai Shiina's Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii (Still, The World is Beautiful) shoujo manga.

The official Ressha Sentai ToQGer TV-Asahi page confirmed that a special one-hour episode will air on March 30! This special episode will feature a crossover between the ToQGers and Kamen Rider gaim with special guest appearances coming from Kamen...

Japanese Lego artist Sachiko Akinaga makes amazing things out of legos – one of which is a life-size banana that you can actually peel. What's more impressive is that she made it in 10 minutes during a competition!

As previously reported, two new Lock Seeds called the Showa Lock Seed and the Heisei Lock Seed will appear in the Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider War feat. Super Sentai film. Just recently, a new pictures features these Lock Seeds in act...

Awesome news for Canadian fans. . . Rose Noire has announced they will be performing at Otafest in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on May 17th. Check out the details and watch their comment video on the upcoming event.

With the live-action version of Kiki's Delivery Service set to hit cinemas in Japan on March 1, it's time for the celebrations and tie-in promotions to commence! Japanese bakery chain, Little Mermaid, is one of the first to step up to the plate, p...

Abarenbō Rikishi! ! Matsutarō to premiere on April 5 Notari Matsutaro, the sumo hero manga by boxing manga Ashita no Joe creator Tetsuya Chiba, is inspiring a television anime 16 years after the manga's end.

Last month we laughed along with the Swedish animators Olivia Bergstrom and Eric Bradford as we watched the first scenes of their anime-inspired creation Senpai Club. Now the pair, collectively known as makebabi.

The April issue of Ciao magazine announced that Gosho Aoyama will publish a special one-shot manga of Detective Conan in the said shojo magazine. The one-shot will mark the release of the new Detective Conan film by showing a detectie faceoff betw...

AKB48 Group Dai Sokaku Matsuri AKB48 Group Dai Sokaku Matsuri (AKB48グループ大組閣祭り～時代は変わる。だけど、僕らは前しか向かねえ！～) was held on February 24, 2014 at Zepp DiverCity in Tokyo. This event was the 3rd big shuffle of the 48 Family groups.

Episode 6 Impression: Ah, and so it begins – the 'long haul'. Beginning this show six episode prior, I expressed my desire for a romantic comedy (with harem aspects) that had a baseline story, weaving comedy into the mix as the story progressed.

Pizza Hut has teamed up with the girls of generic idol anime Love Live! School Idol Project to wrap an entire store and its attendant fleet of mopeds in Love Live livery, its first ever such undertaking.

With the Naruto: Shinobi Masters social game set to end this spring, GREE is hard at work on a replacement. The franchise's next mobile game is on the way from ForGroove, the team that previously developed Hunter x Hunter: Battle Collection.

Here's the fourth promo of Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider War feat. Super Sentai. The promo continues to hype up the showdown between the Heisei Riders and the Showa Riders. Produced by Shinichiro Shirakura (Super Hero Taisen), directed...

Hello, and welcome to All Your Monies, where The Glorio Blog's resident toy and figure collecting crew (and Aquagaze) will run down the last week's new pre-orders, turning a loving or scathing eye over what's been put out for you to spend your har...

The manga industry over in the US has some hardworking people that…the average fan may or may not know about. They may not even know how valuable they can be when it comes to working on a manga series.

Japanese publisher Kodansha reported its financial results for the 2013 fiscal year (December 2012 to November 2013) on Thursday. The company garnered 120. 272 billion yen (about US$1. 173-billion) in revenue, a 2.

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